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New year – new blog or how to migrate Community Server to any other engine, supports XML-RPC

Tamir Khason — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:33:04 GMT

Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors, you cannot host it here… Take a look into new comments notifications in my inbox. Would you answer your readers with such “small amount” of SPAM and capcha, that cannot be fixed already for three years in this platform? This how my inbox looks like for last three years. So now, you should not ask me, why I not answered your email or comments. Aren’t you? :)

Currently, all comments in this blog are disabled, so if you want to comment, please use new url of posts (this will appear shortly in the beginning of each post). Also, this post will not be syndicated in RSS.

So, this post is the last. I loved this platform, and loved people started it. But, unfortunately, it seemed, that bloggers community is not important enough for new platform managers.

Also, If you want to learn how to use C# and XML-RCP to migrate from CS2007, used in this platform, visit my new home :)

Have a great year and, as always, be good people. This post marked with all possible tags automatically. Sorry.

WPF for developers from Dev. Academy 2 - recordings

Tamir Khason — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:20:18 GMT

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If you was unable to attend Developers Academy 2 and still want to see sessions there, you are more, then welcome to do it. Here link to the recording of my session. And here is the presentation. The quality of the recording is awful, as well as whole hosting site quality. It seemed like "Gisha Hadasha" has no QA and particle employed student to make sites. However, if you still want to see the screencasts of the sessions, go there.

See screencast "WPF for developers (or optimizing your WPF application)" >>

DEV411 - presentation and demos download

Tamir Khason — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:23:39 GMT

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I uploaded my presentation, done in DevAcademy2 to SkyDrive. Now you can download, use and review it.

PPT only presentation (7.2 MB)

PPT only presentation before final cleanup (7.6 MB)

Full presentation, including demos, code and PPTX file (26.1 MB)

Have a nice day.

Thank you and Microsoft Expression Blend SP1

Tamir Khason — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:33:46 GMT

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First of all, I want to say thanks for all those, who took part in DevAcademy2 event yesterday. I believe, that such events can bring a lot to developer's community all over the world.

Next, I want to announce great work of Microsoft Expression team, that brings us SP1 for Microsoft Expression Blend product.

What fixed in SP1? Most of issues, you reported here.

Download Microsoft Expression Blend SP1 >>

DEV411 - WPF for developers: optimizing your WPF application

Tamir Khason — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:04:00 GMT

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Less, then 24 hours until Developer Academy 2 a lot of pressure and stress. Last fixes to my presentation - it's too long now. A lot of stuff, I want to speak about, a lot of demos (mostly very bad performing applications, I'm dealing with), three computers (one is really cool with 8.9 Vista score) and, of cause, a lot of code to write. But I have only 75 minutes to do it all. So, I have to think a lot about how to do it all together with such tight timeframe (do you remember? - 9:30)

What I'll speak about? I'll speak about cool luxury cars, really.

First of all, the most common problem, WPF developers faced with - performance. No, WPF scales it, but you should know how to do it smart way.
Next, practices. Yes, there are practices and it's worth to learn wisdom by the follies of others. So, I'll speak about those follies.
Why sometimes, pixel is matter, and sometimes it is not?
What two threads, you are working with? Are there really two? Where the application problems are lying?
What is tier? How to measure it? How to know when I'm working with GPU and when with CPU? How to influence it?
How much memory (either computer and graphic card) I need?
What's the greatest evil of your WPF application (that is not your customer)?
How to scale very large bitmaps or very large amount of controls?
How to easily make data virtualization by your own hands?
How to create your own UI threads? Yes - you can do it!
How to make your ListBox x70 times smaller and faster, your data x20 smaller and x700 faster
How manage layout and measurement engines
How to do things in background without paying application fees
How to manage dispatchers
How to use visual and data performance measurement tools and how to analyze and profile unmanaged resources
How to make your application starts x400 faster and load resources on demand
How to load XAML without loading System.Xml.dll and using DOM or SAX
How to run the same WPF application on P3 with 128MB RAM and internal graphic card and Core Duo 2 with 4GB RAM and GeForce 880 GTX and get the same behavior of fast running application
...and much much more...

Waiting for you tomorrow at 9:30 AM (this is almost night, kind of morning) at Arbel hall of Avenue at Airport City near Ben Gurion airport. Come an hour before.

Call for action: Register Microsoft Developer Academy 2 - this is not about CRM

Tamir Khason — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:45:00 GMT

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Shahar and Guy announced about open registration to 1032359731 (Microsoft Developer Academy 2). Please notice, it is not "תתחיל להכיר את הלקוחות שלך מקרוב - כנס CRM לארגונים תעשיה ביצוא", it's Developer Academy. So, sign up and attend at hall E at 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM for "WPF For Developers - Lessons learn from last year (Or Optimizing Your WPF Application)" . Know, it's only 2.5 weeks from now - prepare your questions and bring your problems with you.

It will take place in Airport city (near Ben-Gurion airport) at Avenue convention center, northern Kfar Truman on road 453. Here the map. Be sure to be there.